Beryl Hovis-Afflerbach


ASTRONOMY GRADUATE STUDENT

About Me

Beryl Hovis-Afflerbach

(she/they)


I am a first year PhD student and NSF GRFP fellow studying astronomy at Northwestern University.


I am interested in the metal-poor massive stars that inhabit high-redshift galaxies. These massive stars are observationally distinct from those in the local universe, and accurately modeling their radiation is crucial to interpreting the new observations of high-redshift galaxies from JWST. I plan to use rest-UV and rest-optical spectra of these galaxies alongside stellar evolution and population synthesis modeling to understand the emission from these stars and how we can implement it within our models of high-redshift galaxies.


My previous research includes modeling populations of massive stars stripped through binary interaction, using dimensionality reduction to detect errors in photometric redshift template fitting, and characterizing solar eruptions.

Research

Stripped Stars and Binary Stellar Evolution

Solar Physics and Space Weather

High Redshift Galaxies and Dimensionality Reduction

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Contact Me


Beryl Hovis-Afflerbach
beryl@u.northwestern.edu